Upcoming Events

This Week

Monday, 23 February

SINFO The 22nd annual edition will take place from 23 to 28 February 2015 at the Alameda Campus of Instituto Superior Técnico, in the beautiful city of Lisbon, Portugal. It is nowadays one the biggest tech events in Portugal and the biggest student-only organized event in Europe.

Thursday, 26 February

Semmle has recently added support for JavaScript to its analysis platform. As one of our first major JavaScript analysis projects, we have analysed recent and historic versions of Gaia, the UI layer of FirefoxOS. In this talk, I will present some of our findings, and show how Semmle's toolchain can be used to investigate all aspects of a software system, from high-level code quality trends to detailed static analysis questions.

Max works as a Research Engineer at Semmle where he is in charge of the JavaScript analysis platform. Prior to joining Semmle, he did a stint as a postdoc at IBM Research, before briefly trying his luck as an Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University.

OWASP New Zealand Day conference is a one-day conference dedicated to application security, with an emphasis on secure architecture and development techniques to help Kiwi developers build more secure applications held at the University of Auckland on Friday February 27th, 2015.

Firefox OS

CTO Update

Speaker Location: Luke Wagner, remote

asm.js / Microsoft update: Microsoft announced work is underway to add asm.js optimizations to IE.

'asm.js' is the name the kind of JavaScript produced by tools like Emscripten. While asm.js code runs pretty well in all browsers (it's just JavaScript), it runs best with specific optimizations and Microsoft is the second browser (after Firefox) to include these specific optimizations. This is very good news for Mozilla since we pioneered asm.js as a way to reliably get near-native performance across browsers without requiring plugins or other non-standard technologies.

Web Compatibility

We had attendance from Google (Paul Irish), Opera (remotely Bruce Lawson), Microsoft (Coleen Williams, Jacob Rossi), QuickLeft (Alex McPherson), (Alexa Roman), W3C (Daniel Davis), Mozilla (a couple of employees). We discussed issues related to Web Compat and how to make progress on them. A summary will be published soon. It was also broadcasted live on Air Mozilla.

Thanks to everyone in Mountain View who made it possible technically and logistically, much appreciated.

Speakers

The limit is 3 minutes per topic. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation. If you plan on showing a video, you need to contact the Air Mozilla team before the day of the meeting or you will be deferred to the next week.